IVAN DOIG - Key Persons
Itinerant teacher Morrie Morgan of The Whistling Season wends his way to boomtown Butte in 1919. There he characteristically slips in and out of roles, from funeral "cryer" to librarian to union activist, while fending off Chicago gangsters and pursuing romance.
In his third appearance, character Morrie Morgan from Work Song resurfaces in Butte after a honeymoon hiatus. Now a newspaper man, Morgan's talents with language and encyclopedic knowledge are put to use on the Thunder in editorial warfare with the Anaconda Copper Mining Company.